The Lost Weekend (1945)

Billy Wilder · 101 min · Letterboxd ↗

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

The Lost Weekend screens once in London: BFI Southbank, Wednesday 21 October at 20:55.